Can the Yankees win a game without a stat-padding third baseman?

Does any of the above make this game important?

Andy vs the Orioles: 25-6.

Is there anything more embarassing than issuing a walk-off walk?

Someone mentioned a walkoff wild pitch in the last thread and sure enough, it happened today in the Pirates-Reds game.

“Have ya been to my website lately? You should really check it out!”

These are the words that I hear most frequently while watching Yankees games. I think they are slowly driving me insane.

Well…...O.K.

Someone mentioned a walkoff wild pitch in the last thread and sure enough, it happened today in the Pirates-Reds game.

If you’re the home team and something like that happens, management should issue refunds to everyone in attendance.

Does anyone else fear the Giants in a five or seven game series?

[6] Oh yeah. They have a very good postseason staff.

I’m going to a Dodger game tonight. For $7.

Also, the fires here are ridiculous. I could see them from my window this morning. They have also burned down my favorite place to run around here.

[7] Combined with the outrageous heat I’m becoming even more sure of my decision to move back East this winter.

6. i fear cain and lincecum in theory, but until the yankees have won a postseason series the list of things i fear more than the Giants is pretty long.

Does anyone else fear the Giants in a five or seven game series?

As a Yankees fan, no. The Yankees have a good enough lineup to get to all their pitchers, except Lincecum, but they could probably find a way to put up a run against him with Girardi’s clever small ball strategies. And I don’t fear the Giants lineup at all.

My postseason fears are the Angels and hemp necklaces.

[6]  Luckily, the home team can’t lose on a walk off wild pitch.

[11] haha good point!

[10] I believe fear is directly correlated to the number of hemp necklaces per player.

“The Teixiera signing, about the greatest signing the Yankees have ever made for a free agent…”
-John Sterling

Reggie Jackson is going to storm into the radio both and fight you, John.

both = booth

I’m glad John isn’t rushing to any judgments there.  I mean, I like the signing and all, but we’re not even done with Year 1.

[13] Moose might have something to say about that too.

[16] Teix will win that argument with a fistful of rings.

[17] Maybe, but Mussina can always hold the NYT crossword puzzle over him.

ESPN actually had a humorous little bit last night on the game yesterday, specifically Teixeira’s HR.  They showed a slow-motion replay focusing on his eyes, and they really did light up just before he started his swing.  It was pretty funny.

[18] Diamond cuts paper.

[19] I recall being struck by some film of Mike Singletary I think it was for a few seconds before the snap, or possibly a still - very “every photon counts” mode.

Paper covers diamond?

baserunner, please.

ESPN actually had a humorous little bit last night on the game yesterday, specifically Teixeira’s HR.  They showed a slow-motion replay focusing on his eyes, and they really did light up just before he started his swing.  It was pretty funny.

They focused on that during the game.

Damn jet stream.

that works too.

Road Swisher.

Can they make him stay in hotels in NY so he feels like he’s on the road?

Gotta whole lotta lineouts.

Gameday says 4 of the 7 yankees outs were lined. Are we hitting Guthrie well, or were these soft line drives?

[29] translates [28] from Lyric into English.

Swisher totally crushed that one.

Apparently, the White Sox GM has just made “almost the ENTIRE roster available via trade”.

I am going to count that as 25 more victims on the “Yankees beat them so badly their team wanted to get rid of them” list. That’s adds them to Schmoltz, Penny, and Padilla.

They should trade away this Wieters kid

There’s nothing as depressing as having your 1st baseman hit 9th.

Pettitte is kind of awesome right now.  His post-ASB run has been quite remarkable.

Reggie Jackson is going to storm into the radio both and fight you, John.

What do we need to pay Reggie to follow through?

——-The Club with the best record in the American League will have the right to decide whether it will play in the seven-day or eight-day Division Series (i.e., whether it will start its Division Series on Wednesday, Oct. 7 or Thursday, Oct. 8). The A.L. Club with the best record will make its selection no later than one hour following the completion of any game that finalizes which club will have the best record in the Championship Season or finalizes the matchups in the Division Series, whichever is later.———

The Yankees would want the extra day, b/c their bulpen is so topheavy (hughes/mo), right?

There’s nothing as depressing as having your 1st baseman hit 9th.

Having Igawa as your SP?

[37] Does Joba pitch out of the BP at all in the postseason?

I would assume so.  Also they will have more than enough time to set up their rotation for that series, and having an extra day off between series can’t hurt either.

Guthrie has given our top three hitters a bad time, but having given up 30 homers, he’s not a mystery to the league by all accounts.  He evidently can throw a lot of junk at time to spots and doesn’t like to give in to the big guys.  He’s racking up quite a few pitches so far tonight.

“The A.L. Club with the best record will make its selection no later than one hour following [...]”

or else what?

Doesn’t it matter more how one sets up for the next series than how the relief corp is structured?

That’s assuming you’re going to win the current series, and recent experiences have shown that’s probably not the best idea.

The Yankees would want the extra day, b/c their bulpen is so topheavy (hughes/mo), right?

Probably, seeing as having 3 starters instead of 4 is beneficial, although that depends on who they are facing. If they are lined up to face the Tigers, they might want it to be the shorter series to avoid facing Verlander and Jackson twice each.

Does Joba pitch out of the BP at all in the postseason?

If they go with the extra day in round 1, then Joba would be in the pen and they would probably want to use him since he would be back to starting after that when they need 4 starters.

“That’s assuming you’re going to win the current series”

If it’s win everything or the season was a failure, then one ought to.  In any case I’d rather focus on the Angels or RS series regardless.

A couple innings ago gameday tried to tell me Guthrie was pitching to Adam Jones, he then flew out to Adam Jones in CF.

[46] Jones must be fleet of foot.

[46] The kid is fast.

[47] You’re pretty fast too.

Isn’t small ball wonderful?

this is really getting quite old.

[45] - I would argue that the best way to maximize the chances of beating the RS or Angels in the ALCS is to maximize your chances of actually making it there.  Too many ridiculous things happen in a 5 game series to blow it off.

For anyone outside the YES area, if you have MLB Network, they are showing lots of the game tonight as there are only a couple other games going on, AL Leiter is in studio, and they are obsessed with talking about the cutter tonight.

Live look-in right now.

I expressed amazement at Jeter’s bunt during the 10-0 game on Saturday (2-0 at the time).  I told my friend that I couldn’t believe Jeter wouldn’t be hitting against a struggling Contreras and that there was no sense in giving Jose an out.  The enormous fan in front of me leaned back and said, “moves the guy on first into second place, smart guy.”  As Steve Phillips always says, Yankee fans are the most knowledgeable.

[54] What college course do you have to take to learn they’re called “bases?”

[55] - Bases are one of those sabremetrics thingies that all of 17 people understand.  I know, because I know a guy who lives in his mom’s basement.

I don’t know.  He also got the Yankee Number Stumper wrong.  Yogi Berra squared, divided by Lou Gehrig.  He correctly predicted the outcome of the Subway Race, though.  I know this because he spent a lot time yelling and “explaining” the game to a group of Spanish tourists in front of him

Nice of Mora to keep Andy’s pitching count down.

I was surprised to learn that the Yankees had acquired Andrew McCutchen.  Then I realized that Gameday Premium has substituted the Pittsburgh Pirates’ lineup for the Yanks’.  Baltimore, apparently, is the Texas Rangers.  I can’t even begin to imagine how this bug has occurred.  What’s Pettitte’s pitch count?  Gameday has him on the hook for five earned runs in the first.

Pettitte is at 59 pitches through 5 with 5 K’s and no walks.  Pretty hot.

[59] 59

Good, because the best thing I could figure was that Andy Pettitte was pitching against his own team, and that, even worse, the Pirates were backing him up.

I like you, Jerry.

Mora, Wieters, and Wigginton are very nice fellows.

Jerry is probably the first Jehovah’s Witness ever to appear in a Yankee uniform.  I’m pretty sure that’s why he doesn’t have walk-up music.

66 through 6 (scary) and all zeroes so far.

What is this, a kabbalah convention?

Only 13 registered users on right now.  Think that will increase exponentially each inning?

So Swisher would be Babe Ruth if he hit at NYS like everyone else can?

Swisher gunning for the 1.000 road OPS.  He’s at .989 right now.

[69] He’s got a better record pitching than Ruth, right?

[69] He’s got a better record pitching than Ruth, right?

His WHIP is higher, I believe.

[68] Do we early birds get anything special then?

[68] - Well, the visitors record was during a similarly good game

But this one is actually quite a bit better than that one.

MLB Network is now doing live look-ins each time the Yankees are playing defense, for obvious reasons.

[68] Do we early birds get anything special then?

It all depends, doesn’t it?

I wasn’t paying attention for a while too, so it was more like 12. I’m back for the next 10 minutes or so until I have to leave for the Dodgers game.

No MLB network here, but wish I could watch.

[75] To see Swisher in the field?

I’m back for the next 10 minutes or so until I have to leave for the Dodgers game.

We will not allow you to leave.  There are matters of greater import at hand.

[79] Yep.

[80] I thought everyone in LA left late for those games anyways?

“Top of the 7th, Red Sox Batting, Behind 0-2, Yankees’ Chien-Ming Wang facing 4-5-6
t7   0   —-      5,(1-2) BCFFX   -6%    75%    0-2   BOS   K. Youkilis   C. Wang   Reached on E6 (throw to 1B) (Ground Ball to Weak SS)”

“Weak SS”?

I really don’t want to I’m considering texting my coach and asking him if he’ll hold the bus.

“Weak SS”?

That pretty much describes Jeter defensively in 07.

[81] I actually like baseball.

I don’t like you, Jerry.

Jerry, MO DAMMIT!

Modammit!

[83] You play for the Dodgers?

WTF

HAIRSTON YOU F***ING LOSER

Ugh!

PUNCH HIM! PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE!!!

[89] Hahaha!

Pena makes that play.

The Kingdom of Jehovah giveth and taketh.  Read those pamphlets some time.

[89] no team trip to the game.

argh. I just called him and asked him to delay leaving too.

I really, really want Pettitte to finish “perfect” so that Hairston feels like a total ass.

[95] ARod makes that play, Ransom doesn’t though.

Oh well.  Hairston had made quite a nice play earlier to keep the no-hitter going.